Quotes About Defects

quality is most of all a function of its usefulness. The Corporate Quality Program Real quality has little to do with defects

Polly belonged wholly to her time. Alert to its defects and dangers, she nevertheless had reached what she herself called an adjustment, and she was very firm in her belief that without the attainment of a state of conscious harmony with the society in which he functioned, no individual could hope to accomplish much of anything

Anyone who does not share his moments of joy and discouragement with others will never fully know his own qualities and his own defects

No se pueden evitar los defectos de los hombres sin huir al mismo tiempo de sus virtudes. De ahí que la sensatez nos destruya.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

But what can I do if you are not touched by my defects, whereas I loved yours. My candour was crushed underfoot by you.

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Deming argued that if there are performance problems and quality defects, one needs to understand how those problems arise almost naturally as a consequence of how a system has been designed—and then fix those design flaws. Put simply, attack the problems by fixing the system, not scapegoating the necessarily fallible human beings working in and operating that system—whether or not they deserved it.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

Too often, we are unaware of the risks associated with defective trees which can cause personal injury and property damage,-HOW TO INSPECT TREE AND RECOGNIZE HAZARDOUS TREE DEFECTS, Author, V J SMITH, BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

Tous vos défauts, vos terreurs, vos petitesses ajoutent je ne sais quelle grâce á votre âme.

It is natural for a translator to be prejudiced in favour of his adopted work. More impartial readers may not be so much struck with the beauties of this piece as I was. Yet I am not blind to my author's defects.

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

Chang nodded sagely. "My father insisted on it. He said, 'You may be proud of being a scanner. I am sorry you are not a man. Conceal your defects.' So I tried. I wanted to tell the old boy about the up-and-out, and what we did there, but it did not matter. He said, 'Airplanes were good enough for Confucius, and they are for me too.' The old humbug!

Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work, rather than its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as the bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Among the defects of the bill, which were numerous, one provision was conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.